2025-26 Academic Year
September 12, 2025
Thomas Steffan, Yale University
Paper: TBA
November 2, 2025
Brad Hendricks, UNC Kenan-Flagler
Paper: TBA
November 14, 2025
Naim Bugra Ozel, University Texas-Dallas
Paper: TBA
December 5, 2025
Matt Bloomfield, University of Pennsylvania Wharton
Paper: TBA
2024-25 Academic Year
September 6, 2024
1:15-2:45 p.m. | HLH 204
Steve Crawford, University of Houston
Paper: TBA
September 13, 2024
1:15-2:45 p.m. | HLH 204
Tyler Kleppe, University of Kentucky
Paper: TBA
2023-24 Academic Year
October 20, 2023
1:15-2:45 p.m. | HLH 229
Joseph Brazel, North Carolina State University
Paper: Inheriting vs. Developing Data Analytic Tests and Auditors’ Professional Skepticism
April 5, 2024
1:15-2:45 p.m. | HLH 204
Willie Choi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paper: TBD
November 17, 2023
1:15-2:45 p.m. | HLH 211
Steve Stubben, University of Utah
Paper: Acquisition of Customer Information and Corporate Decision Making
April 19, 2024
1:15-2:45 p.m. | HLH 204
Joe Schroeder, Indiana University
Paper: TBD
March 1, 2024
1-2:30 p.m. | HLH 204
Scott Dyreng, Duke University
Paper: Measurement Error when Estimating Covenant Violations
March 22, 2024
1:15-2:45 p.m. | HLH 204
Brian Miller, Indiana University
Paper: TBD
2022-23 Academic Year
September 30, 2022
Phil Lamoreaux, Arizona State University
Paper: Auditor reputation, client IPOs, and audit firm data breaches
November 11, 2022
Kathryn Kadous, Emory University
Paper: Does Status Equal Substance? The Effects of Specialist Social Status on Auditor Assessments of Complex Estimates
October 7, 2022
Jennifer Glenn, Ohio State University
Paper: Activist Investors and VAs
April 7, 2023
Kathryn Holmstrom, Iowa State University
Paper: Investor Reactions to CEO Gender and Firm Performance
October 28, 2022
Katherine Schipper, Duke University
Paper: What can analysts learn from artificial intelligence about fundamental analysis
May 12, 2023
Brad Badertscher, University of Notre Dame
Paper: Materiality Judgment and Firm Disclosure
November 4, 2022
Nerissa Brown, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Paper: Do Local Country Reporting Requirements Affect Parent Company Disclosure of Subsidiary Operations?
2021-22 Academic Year
September 24, 2021
Rick Hatfield, University of Alabama
Paper: CSR Goal Disclosures and Regulatory Mandates: The Role of Investors’ Perceptions of Greenwashing
February 18, 2022
Frank Heflin, University of Georgia
Paper: Does Auditor Style Influence Non-GAAP Reporting?
May 6, 2022
Shane Dikolli, University of Virginia
Paper: ESG mutual fund voting on executive compensation shareholder proposals
October 1, 2021
Qian Wang, Iowa State University
Paper: Audit Committee Internal Connections and Oversight Effectiveness
March 25, 2022
Tim Seidel, Brigham Young University
Paper: Does Greater Diversity among Local Audit Practice Leadership Foster a Climate Conducive to Retention and Audit Quality?
October 15, 2021
Andrew Leone, Northwestern University
Paper: Better in Person? The Effects of In-Person Screening on Hiring Outcomes∗
April 22, 2022
Margaret Christ, University of Georgia
Paper: How do Relative Performance Evaluation and Auditors' Social Bonds Influence Auditors' Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Sharing?
November 12, 2021
Ben Yost, Boston College
Paper: Do Tax-Based Proprietary Costs Discourage Public Listing? Evidence from FIN 48
April 29, 2022
John McInnis, University of Texas at Austin
Paper: The superiority of earnings over cash flows in predicting cash flows available to investors over the long run
2020-21 Academic Year
October 9, 2020
Michael Dambra, University of Buffalo
Paper: Disclosure and the Cost-of Capital: Evidence from FOMC Announcements
December 4, 2020
Darren Roulstone, Ohio State University
Paper: Disclosure Similarity and Future Stock Return Comovement
April 2, 2021
Mary Ellen Carter, Boston College
Paper: Customer RPE: Using customer performance to filter noise out of CEO incentive contracts
October 23, 2020
Andy Imdieke, University of Notre Dame
Paper: Reliance on External Assurance in Bank Monitoring
February 5, 2021
Yao Yu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Paper: How Do Accounting Estimate Bias and Method Similarity Influence Investors’ Reliability Judgment and Investment Decisions?
April 16, 2021
Lauren Cunningham, University of Tennessee
Paper: Appointing Audit Committee Directors
November 6, 2020
Brady Williams, University of Texas at Austin
Paper: Financial Flexibility and Corporate Employment
March 5, 2020
Weili Ge, University of Washington
Paper: CEOs’ Prosocial Behavior, Their Careers and Corporate Policies
April 30, 2021
Tim Bauer, University of Waterloo
Paper: Rejected but Not Dejected: The Effects of Gratitude and Ingroup Membership on Auditors’ Future Advice-Giving when Past Advice is Dismissed
November 13, 2020
Adam Presslee, University of Waterloo
Paper: Why tangible rewards can motivate greater effort than cash rewards: An analysis of four commonly cited attribute differences
March 26, 2020
Eric Chan, University of Texas at Austin
Paper: Promote Internally or Hire Externally? The Role of Trust, Reciprocity, and Performance Measurement Precision
2019-20 Academic Year
September 6, 2019
P. Eric Yeung, Cornell University
Paper: Hoarding Non-Proprietary Bad News through Confidential Treatments? An Analysis of Market Reactions to Redaction Amendments
January 31, 2020
Matt Ege, Texas A&M University
Paper: Does the Business Press Inform Investors of the Value of Big 4 Audits?
October 11, 2019
Brian Cadman, University of Utah
Paper: Degree of Operating Leverage, Earnings Properties, Reporting Incentives, and the Usefulness of Earnings
February 14, 2020
Erin Towery, University of Georgia
Paper: Estimating the likelihood of future tax settlements using firm fundamentals and text disclosures
October 18, 2019
Daniel Saavedra, University of California Los Angeles
Paper: Do lenders influence mandatory disclosures? Evidence from redacted credit agreements?
November 22, 2019
Steve Kachelmeier, University of Texas at Austin
Paper: Does Auditor Involvement with Client Prosocial Activities Affect Auditor-Client Negotiations?